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In Startup and Recovery; if you have "Automatically restart" unchecked, and "Write an event to the system log" is checked, then your machine shouldn't be restarting on it's own and not writing any event either. This behavior might indicate a hardware problem like the CPU overheating or a stick of bad RAM, rather than a malicious process. Although, because of the way they hook the API, certain boot sector viruses and rootkits are fully capable of shutting down a machine without Windows having a clue as to what just happened.

I've no reason to believe this 7yr old Medion has any hardware issues or rootkits. It's always been remarkably stable right up to and including the full wipe and reinstall of Win 7 Ult that I initiated a few days ago.

I'm currently restoring my pre-Grub Acronis image in full - MBR, System Reserved and Windows partitions, and then I'm going to install Grub4DOS, load up my bootable ISOs, have a working system once again (hopefully anyway!!) and forget all about these issues for the time being.

Windows Backup and Restore System Image

backup/restore system image?hey , this a stupid question, i think. but i just can't understand what is the deference between a system restore image and a backup data image etc? i've heard that u can save both a system restore image and backup at the same time to an external hard drive : for example, f:drive\name of pc...

Backup and Restore

System Image is not recognized in Control Panel\...\Backup and RestoreI have a 256Gb SSD partitioned into 121GB (Volume label left at default "Local Disk") (C:) and 116 GB Data (D:) (sizes select by default in initial access to Disk Management). I also have an internal SATA 6Gb 500Gb Backup (E:).
Apparently this label of my E: drive is both "meaningless" and...

Backup and Restore

Image Backup and System restore stopped working?I'd just done a new install of Windows 7 and have put my OS onto a new 64GB SSD. To begin with imaging and System restore worked but after I'd reconnected all my HDD (6TB in total) and installed all my apps (some alongside the OS, some on one of the HDDs alongside my user files) I went to do a...

Backup and Restore

Backup Image with Windows Backup and RestoreI have been using Acronis Rescue disk to make images of my system. It works fine, but is a pain because I have open up the case and disconnect my secondary hard drive and change from my wireless mouse to a wired mouse. So I decided to try to the built-in Backup and Restore in Win 7 Pro and...

Backup and Restore

Backup & Restore - Unable to Find Previous System ImageI made a System Image to an external USB drive months ago and had a system crash.
I replaced the HD's and attempted a System Image Recovery by booting up using the System Recovery Disk I made and having the external USB drive connected.
When the System Image Recovery tries to scan for...

Backup and Restore

Backup and Restore multiple system image drivesHi
Why does windows put two drives in the "Include a system image of drives" option ?
I only want to backup C:
What is causing this?
My F: disk is only storage no system files as i know of.
thanks in a advance
/Daba